The league consists of the 18 first-class county teams divided into two divisions of nine teams each with fixtures played between July and September.

The final Will take place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on 2 September 2017

In Yorkshire vs Nottinghamshire Essex are top of the Specsavers County Championship and won the South Group – against all the same teams they face here – of the Royal London One-Day Cup at a canter, winning seven of their eight games before going down to Notts in a ludicrous high-scoring quarter-final.

The 2017 NatWest T20 Blast is the current Twenty20 cricket league in England and Wales. It is the Fourth Time They are Organinzing Such type of Event.

Essex have already this season proved themselves the most consistent team in the country in four-day and List A cricket; they can the same in T20 too. They might come a cropper under the bigger pressure of a knockout game, but in group play they are the men to beat.